The Department of Business Economics and Public Policy’s Seminar Series is typically held every Friday. The Faculty and PhD Student Seminar Series is held Tuesdays at noon.
Fall 2021 Seminars
Previous Seminars
Spring 2021
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
| Donna Feir | Access to Capital in Indian Country |
Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency | |
Repeated Games with Many Players | |
Housing Discrimination, Neighborhood Effects, and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States | |
| Bruno Strulovici | Social learning, Institution Enforcement, and Ethical Necessity |
| Conrad Miller | Employer Size, Referral Hiring, and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil |
Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are About Political News |
Fall 2020
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion | |
Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19* | |
A Model of Beer Retail Pricing | |
Too Much of a Good Thing: The Dynamics of Trust and Loyalty | |
Following the Customers: Dynamic Competitive Repositioning |
Spring 2020
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
University of Virginia | Private Labels and Bargaining |
Indian School of Business | Timely Persuasion |
Penn State | Physicians as Persuaders: Evidence from Hospitals in China |
Duke University | Efficiency Gain from Mergers: Evidence from the U.S. Railroad Network |
Princeton University | Endogenous Experimentation in Organizations |
Task Allocation and On-the-Job Training | |
Columbia Business School | Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-Evidence |
Fall 2019
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
University of Arizona | Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains |
University of Rochester | The Dynamics of Retail Oligopoly |
FTC Member | Testing the Production Approach |
Kelley School of Business | Strategic Mobilization of Stakeholders |
Yale | Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification |
UNC Greensboro | The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles |
Pennsylvania State University | Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Network |
Yale | Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition |
Dartmouth | Technology Adoption as Climate Adaptation: Evidence from US Air Conditioning Penetration |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Brian McManus UNC | Steering Incentives and Bundling Practices in the Telecommunications Industry |
Mo Xiao University of Arizona | License Complementarity and Package Bidding: The U.S. Spectrum Auctions |
Mehdi Shadmehr Calgary University | Avoiding Competition-Enhancing Price Discrimination: Evidence from the U.S. Airline Industry |
Dave Rapson UC Davis | Subsidizing Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from California |
Paul Grieco Penn State | Input Prices, Productivity and Trade Dynamics: Long-run Effects of Liberalization on Chinese Paint Manufacturers |
Daniel Matisoff Georgia Tech | Do Pilot and Demonstration Projects Work? Evidence from the Green Building Sector |
Amanda Kowalski University of Michigan | Behavior Within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines |
Hulya Eraslan Rice University | Efficiency with Political Power Dynamics and Costly Policy Change |
Devin Pope Chicago Booth | Medical Guidelines and Doctor Decision Making |
Niko Matouschek Northwestern Kellogg | Modular Organization |
Justin Johnson Cornell University | Multiproduct Mergers and Quality Competition |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Atul Gupta Wharton | Impact of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program |
Francesc Dilme University of Bonn | Bargaining and Competition in Thin Markets |
Aparna Soni Indiana Kelley | Health Insurance, Price Changes, and the Demand for Pain Relief Drugs: Evidence from Medicare Part D |
Ryan Kellogg Chicago Harris | Royalties and Deadlines in Oil and Gas Leasing: Theory and Evidence |
Luca Opromolla Bank of Portugal | Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms |
Christopher Knittel MIT | Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies |
Simon Board UCLA | Learning Dynamics in Social Networks |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Martin Szydlowski MIT | Monitor Reputation and Transparency |
Gonzalo Cisternas MIT | Ratings-Based Price Discrimination |
Philipp Strack University of Oxford | A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations |
Steve Tadelis Berkeley Haas | Canary in the e-Commerce Coal Mine |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Jorge Ale Chilet University of Pennsylvania | Gradually Rebuilding a Relationship |
Donna Gilleskie University of North Carolina | The Effects of a Criminal Record |
Josh Gottlieb University of British Columbia | The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality |
Sarah Moshary University of Pennsylvania | What is the Marginal Effect of Entry? |
Jeff Thurk University of Notre Dame | Market Power and the Laffer Curve |
Yingni Guo Northwestern University | The Interval Structure of Optimal Disclosure |
Katja Seim University of Pennsylvania | Economies of Density in E-Commerce |
Timothy J. Moore University of Melbourne | Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives |
George Georgiadis Northwestern University | Optimal Contracts and Monitoring Design |
Stephen Ryan Washington University in St. Louis | Moment Forests |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Vivek Bhattacharya MIT | An Empirical Model of R&D Procurement Contests |
Xingtan Zhang University of Pennsylvania | Efficient Bargaining Through a Broker |
Inga Deimen University of Bonn | Information, Authority, and Smooth Communication |
Marilyn Pease University of Iowa | Shopping for Information |
Can Urgun Northwestern University | Contract Manufacturing Relationships |
Chiara Margaria Yale University | Queueing to Learn |
Odilon Camara USC | Slicing and Bundling |
Leemore Dafny Harvard University | The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers |
Andrew Sweeting University of Maryland | Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information: Implications for Mergers |
Ying Fan University of Michigan | Competition, Product Proliferation, and Welfare |
Joel Watson UC San Diego | Statistical Evidence and the Problem of Robust Litigation |
| Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|
Zhiyun (Frances) Lee Northwestern University | Does Competition Promote Disclosure? |
Jiaxuan Li Boston University | Gateway Products in the DSLR Camera Market: Dynamic Demand, Consumer Learning and Switching Costs |
Thomas Jungbauer Northwestern University | Matching and Price Competition with Multiple Vacancies |
Boyoung Seo University of Minnesota | Firm Scope and the Value of One-Stop Shopping in Washington State’s Deregulated Liquor Market |
Aaron Kolb Duke University | Reputation and Strategic Adoption |
Jeremy West MIT | Racial Bias in Police Investigations |
Alex Smolin Yale University | Optimal Feedback Design |
Jorge Vasquez University of Wisconsin | Crime and Vigilance |
Alex Shcherbakov Washington University in St. Louis | Welfare Analysis of Equilibria with and without Early Termination Fees in the U.S. Wireless Industry |
BEPP-Sponsored Conferences
- International Industrial Organization Conference (2018)
- Midwest Health Economics Conference (2016)
- 5th Workshop on Consumer Search and Switching Costs (2014)